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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA


Earthquake location 35.6836662S, -117.538002WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ridgecrest in CA on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 05:28:15 / July 9, 2019 @ 5:28 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.75 km (6 miles). Event id: ci38496663. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ci38496663. Exact location of earthquake, -117.538002° West, 35.6836662° North, depth 9.75 km. The temblor was detected at 21:28:15 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was California City, Ridgecrest. Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Ridgecrest (c. 27 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from California City (c. 14 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -117.538002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6836662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE of Ridgecrest, CA Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-09 05:28:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 05:30:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ci The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ci, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.06651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ci38496663 Id of event.
Event Code 38496663 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ci38496663, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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